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The New York Times. 22 June 1933. Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York and third in line for the British throne, in the doorway of the miniature Welsh cottage presented to her by the people of Wales and erected on the grounds of Royal Lodge, Windsor. "Princess Elizabeth's Little House".
Remains of the Roman amphitheatre at Caerleon, perhaps the oldest purpose built theatrical space in Wales Savoy Theatre, Monmouth: "The Savoy Theatre occupies what has been called the oldest theatre site in Wales, dating back to Elizabethan times. In 1927 the building was restored and opened as 'The New Picture House', and the first talking ...
The building was officially re-opened by the American former President Jimmy Carter and the last Leader of the Swansea City Council, Trevor Burtonshaw, as the Dylan Thomas Centre in 1995. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2012 a large part of the Centre was leased by Swansea's council to the University of Wales with the purpose of using it as a business centre ...
Founded in 1988 as successor to The Welsh Review (1939–1948), Dock Leaves, and The Anglo-Welsh Review (1949–1988), New Welsh Review is Wales's foremost literary magazine in English. It publishes articles on literature, theatre, and the arts, as well as interviews, reviews, original short stories, and poetry.
In 2014 Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones completed an official five day visit on St. David's Day to Washington, D.C. and New York, meeting with the Caucus, holding a British Council-sponsored opening of a Dylan Thomas event in Greenwich Village, and taking part in engagements at the New York Stock Exchange. [5]
Among his subjects were Evan Roberts, the Loughor evangelist of the early 20th century, who claimed mystical powers; Aneurin Bevan, the rumbustious socialist MP who ushered in the National Health Service in 1948; John Barnard Jenkins, a Welsh political activist, who ran a one-man bombing campaign in 1969; and, inevitably, Dylan Thomas.
Welsh House may refer to: in the United States (by state then city) Welsh House (Syracuse, New York), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Onondaga County; Welsh House (Mandan, North Dakota), listed on the NRHP in Morton County; Gillett-Shoemaker-Welsh House, Waterville, Ohio, listed on the NRHP in Lucas County
Declan Walsh is an Irish author and journalist who is the Chief Africa Correspondent for The New York Times. Walsh was expelled from Pakistan in May 2013—an experience he wrote about in his 2020 book The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State [1] —but continued covering the country from London.